Carriage body for a rail vehicle

ABSTRACT

A carriage or vehicle body for a rail vehicle includes a side wall in which uniform window cutouts for the insertion of windowpanes are provided along the carriage body. A toilet compartment adjoins one longitudinal portion of the side wall. At least one of the window cutouts is provided in the longitudinal portion of the side wall and a sheet metal panel which is inserted into the cutout has an exhaust air opening for the toilet compartment.

The invention relates to a carriage body for a rail vehicle, having a side wall in which uniform window cutouts into which windowpanes can be inserted are provided along the carriage body, and having a toilet compartment adjoining a longitudinal portion of the side wall.

In such a carriage body, all of the window cutouts are typically provided with windowpanes. No window cutouts are provided in the longitudinal portion of the side wall adjoined by the toilet compartment. Rather, the side wall in this longitudinal portion is continuous, if appropriate apart from an exhaust air opening for the toilet compartment.

In such a carriage body, toilet compartments are installed only at fixed places. Subsequent retrofittability or conversion into a passenger space is not possible.

Such a carriage body is disadvantageous in terms of a flexible arrangement of the toilet compartment since the toilet compartment has to be arranged exclusively in the longitudinal portion of the carriage body which is free of window openings and has the exhaust air opening for the toilet compartment.

Taking this as the starting point, the object on which the invention is based is to further develop the carriage body stated at the outset in such a way that a toilet compartment can be arranged more flexibly.

This object is achieved in the carriage body in that at least one of the window cutouts is provided in the longitudinal portion of the side wall, into which cutout a sheet metal panel is inserted, which has an exhaust air opening for the toilet compartment.

In this way, the longitudinal portion of the side wall which adjoins the toilet compartment can be fixed flexibly along the carriage body. The sheet metal panel provided for closing the window cutout can be arranged as desired. Since this sheet metal panel additionally has the exhaust air opening for the toilet compartment, all the structural preconditions are available with regard to the side wall to use a selectable longitudinal portion of the side wall to arrange the toilet compartment.

In the case of toilet compartments having larger dimensions, it may arise that there is provided in the longitudinal portion of the side wall a further window opening into which a further sheet metal panel which completely covers this window opening is inserted.

An exemplary embodiment of the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the attached figure. The single figure shows a lateral partial view of a carriage body end in which a toilet compartment is accommodated.

FIG. 1 shows a carriage body end of a rail vehicle which may be, for example, a local train or a high-speed train.

A longitudinal portion 2, adjoining a carriage intersection point 1, of a side wall of the rail vehicle is equipped with two uniform window cutouts 3. A toilet compartment is arranged inward of the side wall longitudinal portion 2. The two window cutouts 3 are situated at a horizontal center distance from one another which forms a spacing for the arrangement of further window cutouts (not shown) which would adjoin to the right in FIG. 1.

Whereas the further window cutouts are equipped in a conventional manner with windowpanes, the two window cutouts 3 which are situated in the longitudinal portion of the side wall adjoined by the toilet compartment show inserted sheet metal panels 4, 5. The sheet metal panels 4, 5 correspond in their dimensions to those of the window panes which are inserted into the further window cutouts (not shown).

The sheet metal panel 4 is equipped with an exhaust air opening 6 for the toilet compartment. The sheet metal panel 5 has the function of completely closing the window opening 3 provided.

Although in the exemplary embodiment illustrated the longitudinal portion 2 of the side wall which is assigned to the toilet compartment is represented at a carriage body end, many further variants for the arrangement of the toilet compartment are conceivable. Because the sheet metal panels 4, 5 and the window panes have the same dimensions, and because of the exhaust air opening 6 already provided in the sheet metal panel 4, the toilet compartment can be arranged variably along the carriage body.

In another embodiment of the invention, it is also possible for only the sheet metal panel 4 equipped with the exhaust air opening 6 to be provided, specifically for example when the extent of the toilet compartment or the dimensions of the window cutouts allow this to appear advantageous. 

1-2. (canceled)
 3. A carriage body for a rail vehicle, the carriage body comprising: a side wall having a longitudinal portion; said side wall having uniform window cutouts formed therein along the carriage body for receiving windowpanes, at least one of said window cutouts being formed in said longitudinal portion; a toilet compartment adjoining said longitudinal portion; and a sheet metal panel inserted into said at least one window cutout formed in said longitudinal portion, said sheet metal panel having an exhaust air opening formed therein for said toilet compartment.
 4. The carriage body according to claim 3, wherein said longitudinal portion of said side wall has another window opening formed therein, and another sheet metal panel is inserted into and completely closes said other window opening. 